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Sanitary and Sewers Committee for the year ensuing. The
Chairmanship of the Finance Committee is in abeyance until
after the recess.
AUDITORS OF ACCOUNTS.
Pursuant to Sect. 192 of the Metropolis Local Management
Act, 1865, the Board, m April last, ballotted for Auditors to
audit the accounts for the year ending 25th March, 1899, and
the following were elected:—
For St. Saviour's.
Mr. Aubrey Hyman, 79, Borough High Street, Outfitter.
„ Charles Le May, 67, Borough High Street, Hop Factor.
For Christchukch.
Mr. W. R. Poulton, 67, Blackfriars Road, Draper.
The accounts were audited on the 26th of May, 1899. A
copy of the Auditors' certificate is appended to the Accounts at
page 82 of this Report.
POND YARD, BANKSIDE.
The vexata quœstio of the right of way through Pond Yard
is at length in a fair way of settlement, an amicable arrangement
having been come to between Mr. N. Fortescue and the
Board. In July, 1898, a letter having been received from
Messrs. Hughes, his solicitors, renewing their application on
behalf of their client for the closing of the way and the substitution
of a roadway fourteen feet wide through the house and
premises, No. 27, Emerson Street, a Special Committee, consisting
of Messrs. Baxter, Fry, and Woodcock (the then three
Chairmen of Committees), and Messrs. Bolt, Goodwin, Hendrichs,
Newton, Oviatt, and Wood, was appointed to consider
the matter further; and, in September, 1898, they reported
recommending that the application be acceded to, subject to Mr.
Fortescue conveying to the Board the site of the roadway so
to be formed, and a piece of land at the rear, measuring about
40 feet by 35 feet, and also subject to the following terms and
conditions:—
"1. That the new roadway to be formed as aforesaid be
dedicated to the public as a public way.
2. That the necessary application to the Court of